Análisis de la incidencia de las estrategias de participación ciudadana en la democratización de la gestión local: caso GAD intercultural del cantón Cañar, (periodo 2009 – 2019)

Abstract

Citizen participation is a constitutional right that citizens have to participate individually and collectively, in a leading way in decision-making, and planning, management of public affairs and in the social control of State institutions, society and their representatives in a permanent process of building citizen power. Objective: Determine the citizen participation strategies implemented by the Intercultural Decentralized Autonomous Government of the Cañar canton. Methodology: Relational level research, developed under a qualitativequantitative or mixed approach, of an applied, descriptive and field type, with a nonexperimental design, supported by analytical and experimental methods. A population made up of the different instances of the Cañar Citizen Participation System was contemplated, obtaining a sample of 80 social representatives and 14 authorities that worked between the period 2009 - 2019, to whom a survey, an interview and a list of collation, to later proceed with its respective analysis and interpretation. Results: There is a significant ignorance on the part of the Cañarense community, regarding the mechanisms of citizen participation, a reality that conditions the actions of the citizens at a given moment; This situation has repercussions on the development of citizenship at the individual and collective level. Conclusions: Although spaces such as the empty chair, participatory budgets, accountability, thematic tables, oversight and social control were promoted, citizen participation was marked by ignorance and little interest from them.